Tag: DEC-10 mainframe

As of my last post, I had obtained seven of the treasures required to complete the game: the diamond, the cucumber, the coins, the shoe, the trilogy, the laurel wreath and the contract.  That left me with six to obtain: the silver ingot  (not “silver stick” as Google had translated […]

My progress in The Cottage has been slow and painstaking.  A part of that is because it’s not exactly setting my world on fire.  There are many, many things I could be doing that I’d enjoy more than playing this game.  Mostly, though, it’s that the puzzles are somewhat obtuse, […]

After mostly exploring the wilderness in my last post, I’ve moved onto the interior of the titular cottage.  This gave me a taste of this game’s idiosyncratic method of navigation: it uses compass directions when you’re outside, and the commands LEFT, RIGHT, FORWARD and BACK to move around inside. To […]

A while ago, it was Ultima VII that kept me from blogging.  More recently, it’s been The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which is an incredible game, and probably the best in the series since at least 1998.  It’s very hard to dig into text adventures from the […]